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Positive:
13
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Jul 12, 2023
Jul 11, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Gloriously complicated and visually glorious, "Full Circle" finds director Steven Soderbergh where we often find him, nosing around the narrow fissures between good and evil, crime and justice, roguishness and upright society—and, this time, the finer distinctions between sanity and madness. All the while conjuring up a crime thriller of intelligent, infectious momentum.
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Jul 12, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Steven Soderbergh’s complex and richly layered and beautifully filmed “Full Circle” on Max does exactly what the title promises by the time we reach the final, perfect shot of its six-episode run: It brings us full circle in a way that makes every step of the journey so worthwhile.
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IndieWireJul 11, 2023
Season 1 Review:
It’s not as ambitious as “The Knick” or crowd-pleasing as “Erin Brockovich,” “Logan Lucky,” or the “Ocean’s” movies. But it’s not trying to be. Taken as a creative twist on a tried-and-true format, it balances the experimental and the satisfying in a way TV should strive for more often.
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The PlaylistJul 10, 2023
Jul 6, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The story unfolds, primarily in New York City, as a series of disconnected plot pieces, and the promise is that they will cohere, that, ultimately, we will understand how they’re all linked. Scene by scene, “Full Circle,” premiering July 13 on Max, delivers big time, largely thanks to Soderbergh, whose visual dynamics are wonderfully compelling.
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Jul 14, 2023RogerEbert.comJul 12, 2023
Season 1 Review:
There are a few too many coincidental twists in this tale for it to be as taut as the best of the genre, and I couldn’t shake the feeling that a feature runtime would have forced a paring of the script that would have fixed this problem. But there’s so much to like here that its sins can be forgiven.
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Jul 11, 2023
Season 1 Review:
There’s a baseline of competency that comes with Soderbergh and Solomon’s decades of experience, here put in service of compelling themes like karma and the long shadow of colonialism. “Full Circle” is a minor work from a major voice, though the show completes its arc with aplomb.
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Jul 13, 2023
Jul 5, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Full Circle is an odd show. Soderbergh’s virtuosity behind the camera keeps the series compelling and you can frequently spot the elements that made Solomon want to tell this story in the first place. But in terms of the unifying values you might hope for given the series’ title and its myriad top-shelf names? Well, the storylines may come together, but Full Circle does not.
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Jul 5, 2023
Season 1 Review:
One reason the show doesn’t quite stick the landing is that we just aren’t given enough reasons to care why these things are happening to these people specifically — there’s an air of detachment in the way we cycle between these inter-connected groups, and the action feels simultaneously rushed and far too stretched out.
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Jul 20, 2023
Season 1 Review:
“Full Circle,” despite a twist that spares the kidnapped teen at its center, sinks under the weight of whatever it’s trying to say about borders and bribery and the wealthy and the poor because what it’s ultimately interested in is the private agony of individual conscience.
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Jul 14, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Despite its busyness, “Full Circle” can be hard going — a sort of eventful slog. This is somewhat alleviated in later episodes, as the director dials back the stylishness and lets his characters, who have filled out a little over time, quietly converse, like reasonable people.
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